Chromatic organization of ganglion cell receptive fields in the peripheral retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4527-4539

  Solomon, Samuel G ^a,f   Lee, Barry B ^b,c   White, Andrew J R ^a   Rüttiger, Lukas ^b,g   Martin, Paul R ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color vision; Koniocellular; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Primate; Visual field

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LUMINANCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; LIGHT; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 18244369202     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3921-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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